KATHMANDU, August 3: The police have arrested a suspicious passenger boarding a Nepal Airlines Corporation’s (NAC) plane bound for Mumbai.
Premnath Thakur, general manager of Tribhuvan International Airport, said that passenger Santosh Lamichhane, who boarded the plane, was stopped and checked.
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Based on information received by the police that a suspect involved in gold smuggling had boarded the plane, Lamichhane was detained after requesting NAC.
The narrow-body aircraft had the flight from the airport to Mumbai at 1:10 PM but after the delay finally took off at 3:20 PM.
